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SINGING TOGETHER, by William Appleby. Requests
11.20 THE WORLD OF WORK. Looking Ahead: a programme about some of the changes that are taking place in industry and commerce today and their effects on employment. (BBC recording)
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH. ' Un mariage en province': La famille Durand se rend en province pour assister au mariage d'une cousine. Texte d'Emile Harven. (BBC recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Appleby.

THE music BOX. by Gordon Reynolds
2.10 ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS. ' Belshazzar's Feast ': second of two talks by Reginald Jacques on William Walton 's oratorio
2.30 THE JACKSONS. Fenton Sale of Work. Script by Margaret J. Miller
2.50 PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. ' How Dick Stephens Fought the Bear' from ' West Country Stories ' by A. L. Rowse

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Reginald Jacques
Unknown:
William Walton
Script By:
Margaret J. Miller
Unknown:
Dick Stephens
Stories By:
A. L. Rowse

' The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame
Arranged for broadcasting in eight instalments by May Jenkin with music by H. Fraser-Simson
6—'The Further Adventures of Toad
At the piano. Helen Henschel
Production by Josephine Plummer
5.30 Coal Boat to Antwerp
ALED VAUGHAN recently sailed with the Kyle Queen , a cargo vessel carrying Welsh anthracite coal, from Swansea to the Belgian port of Antwerp. This programme gives an account of the voyage.
5.50 The week's programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Grahame
Music By:
H. Fraser-Simson
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Unknown:
Kyle Queen
Mr Toad:
Norman Shelley
Barge woman:
Vivienne Chatterton
Gypsy:
Charles Maunsell
The Storyteller:
Mary O'Farrell

A series of programmes, devised and introduced by Julian Budden , tracing the development of this famous institution from its origin in Victorian times
6-Henry Wood's
Promenade Concerts (1900-1910)
Mr. Stanford Robinson presents a concert with the BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader. Mr Reginald Stead )
Miss Kathleen Kay (contralto)
Madame Ilona Kabos (piano)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julian Budden
Unknown:
Mr. Stanford Robinson
Leader:
Mr Reginald Stead
Contralto:
Miss Kathleen Kay
Piano:
Madame Ilona Kabos

to meet
John. Betjeman
Poetic Licence
Rene Cutforth
Personal Comment
Edward Chapman ' Courts Day by Day '
James Drake
' No Room in the Boot'
Nichols and May
Improvisations to Music
George Benson and Cecile Chevreau
Domestic Interlude
Musical interludes on records chosen by Robert Irwin
Edited and produced by John Bridges

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Chapman
Unknown:
James Drake
Unknown:
George Benson
Unknown:
Robert Irwin
Produced By:
John Bridges

by Bruce Stewart
[Starring] Rupert Davies and Duncan MacIntyre
Cast in order of speaking: [see below]
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

The place is an isolated part of Australia in the early days, before the immigrants lost the dialects of their home lands.

Contributors

Writer:
Bruce Stewart
Producer:
R.D. Smith
O'Byrne:
James McLoughlin
Dan:
Michael Seaver
Elizabeth Sykes:
Nicolette Bernard
Mary Rigger:
Betty Linton
Rigger:
Rupert Davies
Kate O'Byrne:
Sheila Manahan
Jem Langan:
Joe Sterne
Parker:
Ben Williams
Kirk:
Duncan McIntyre
Quillan:
Bruce Stewart
Condringer:
Jeffrey Segal
Foreman of the Jury:
John Hollis

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